I'me helping a neighbour try to revive his 10 foot C band Dish. He bought a new Openbox s9 receiver,a vbox positioner, and a WS C/KU LNb. I hooked everything up checked the declination and elevation of the dish and they are good. I set the east and west limits and brought the dish to the top of the arc and installed the LNB. Moved the dish to the east limit and with the signal meter on tone moved the dish west until I had a strong signal. Stoped and went back to the LNB and using the meter adjusted the lnb for best signal. My signal meter gave me a signal strenght of 86 which I figured wasn't bad for starting. Went to the receiver and picked 72w and did a blind scan, and got nothing.We moved the dish further west to the next strong satellite this time I picked 87w from the receiver and with a signal strength on my meter of 85-86 did a blind scan, and again nothing.
I thought that there was a firmware problem here so I took the receiver home and hooked it up to the wifes KU satellite. I had no problem scanning in channels. I then thought the lnb may be no good but I was getting a good signal, so I went home took my LNB out and installed it in his system, did a scan and still no channels. His Lnb is a WS 741 with 22khz switching for the c Band. I tried this with the 22khz on /off no difference. I did the same on the KU side and nothing.
I brought his receiver and LNB home to do further testing, once I get my system back up and running. I had to take out his actuator because his was siezed and I gave him mine. I managed to put together a von weis from the 4 I have sitting around. So any ways once I'me back up and running I will put his LNB into my system to make sure it works.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
I thought that there was a firmware problem here so I took the receiver home and hooked it up to the wifes KU satellite. I had no problem scanning in channels. I then thought the lnb may be no good but I was getting a good signal, so I went home took my LNB out and installed it in his system, did a scan and still no channels. His Lnb is a WS 741 with 22khz switching for the c Band. I tried this with the 22khz on /off no difference. I did the same on the KU side and nothing.
I brought his receiver and LNB home to do further testing, once I get my system back up and running. I had to take out his actuator because his was siezed and I gave him mine. I managed to put together a von weis from the 4 I have sitting around. So any ways once I'me back up and running I will put his LNB into my system to make sure it works.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.